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On seeing it recently, the production shows its age a little, in that there are some comedy scenes where the actors are silent for a moment or two as if giving the audience time to laugh. Aside from that it entertains as much as it did in 1980, and the production settings are absolutely of a high standard, some sets would have cost a fortune to create.
Apart from the excellent Judy Dench, you'll ask yourself "where have all these marvelous character actors gone"? It's great strength for me is that it doesn't do a downstairs/upstairs thing, it's about one hilarious family with very different peculiarities and I'm not sure that Boy Dugdale's preferences would be dealt with these days with such clarity.
On seeing it recently, the production shows its age a little, in that there are some comedy scenes where the actors are silent for a moment or two as if giving the audience time to laugh. Aside from that it entertains as much as it did in 1980, and the production settings are absolutely of a high standard, some sets would have cost a fortune to create.
Apart from the excellent Judy Dench, you'll ask yourself "where have all these marvelous character actors gone"? It's great strength for me is that it doesn't do a downstairs/upstairs thing, it's about one hilarious family with very different peculiarities and I'm not sure that Boy Dugdale's preferences would be dealt with these days with such clarity.